Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-04-13
LESSONlWITH A MORAL.
When Will Our Eyes be Opened to this Great
National Calamity.

The year 1886 played sad havoc with
many prominent men of our country.
Many of them died Without warning,
passing away apparently in the tnll nusn Oh
life.
Others were sick but comparatively
short time. We turn to our files and are
astonished to find that most of them died OF
apoplexy, of paralysis, of nervous prostra-
ton. of malignant blood humor, OF Bright's
disease, of heart disease, of kidney disease,
of rheumatism or of pneumonia.
| 1t is singular that most of our prominent
men die of these disorders. Any Journalist
who watches the telegraph reports will be
astonished at the number of prominent VIC
| Tins of these disorders.
| Many statements have appeared IN our
paper with others to the effect that the dis
eases that carried off so many prominent
men in 1886 are really one disease, taking
different names according to the location OF
| the fatal effects.
When valuable horse perishes, it be-
| comes the nine days talk of the sporting
world, and yet thousands of ordinary horses
are dying every day, their aggregate loss is
enormous, and yet their death creates no
comment.
| So it is with individuals. The cause of
death of prominent men creates comment,
especially when it can be shown that one
unsupported disease carries off most OF
them, and yet ''vast numbers of ordinary
men and women die before their time every
year from the same cause
1t is said if the blood is kept free from
uric acid, that heart disease, paralysis, nerv-
GUS prostration, Pneumonia, rheumatism,
and many cases of consumption, would
never be known. This uric acid, we are
told, is the waste of the system, and it is
the duty of the kidneys to remove this waste.
We are told that if the kidneys are main
tanned in perfect health, the uric, kidney,
acid is kept out of the blood, and these sud
den and universal diseases caused by uric
acid will, in a large measure, disappear.
But how shall this be done? 1t is folly
to treat effects. If there is any known way
of getting at the cause, that way should be
known to the public. We believe that
Warmers safe cure of which SO much has
been written, and so much talked of by the
public generally, and which can be obtain
ed of dealers everywhere, is now recognized
by impartial physicians and the public as
the one specific for such diseases.
Because public attention has been direct
ed to this great remedy by means of adver-
Using, some persons have not believed in
the remedy. We cannot see how Mr..
Warner could Immediately benefit the pub
lie in any other way, and his valuable spe-
eific should not be condemned because some
nostrums have come before the public in
the same way, any more than that all doc
tors should be condemned because so many
of them are incompetent.
1t is astonishing what good opinions you
hear on every side Of that great remedy,
and public opinion thus based upon an &C
hac oil bo inht md inn
portance of absolute truth.
At this time of the year, the uric acid in
the blood invites pneumonia and rkeuma-
tism, and there is not man who does not
tdread these monsters of disease; but he need
have no fear of them, we are told, if he rid
the blood of the uric acid cause.
These words are strong, and may sound
like an advertisement, and be rejected as
such by unthinking people, but we believe
they are the truth, and as such should be
spoken by every truth-loving newspaper.